<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Sunil Abraham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sunil@mahiti.org">sunil@mahiti.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Apologies for using my Mahiti id for this. Also apologies for posting in HTML. <br>
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Dear Friends,<br>
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Greetings on the occasion of Software Freedom Day! I am happy to announce that we have just couriered out the posters and a covering letter to a database of Bangalore schools and colleges. I am very grateful for the support and guidance of the FSUG-Bangalore members. Unfortunately we have not yet managed to launch the new CIS website. So the urls are temporary. I will post permanent urls once the site is up...hopefully on Monday. Please download the files and forward to your contacts in the academic sector. With thanks in advance.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Sunil<br>
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Director - Policy<br>
Centre for Internet and Society<br>
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In partnership with Free Software User Group - Bangalore, the Centre for Internet and Society is organising a essay competition for school and college students from Bangalore. The last date for submitting entries is 30th of October 2008. </div>
</blockquote><div><br>It was mention ed November 8th is the last date --- poster says that and also we finalized the same right....<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>3 prizes of Rs. 3,000/- each are available for college students. And 3 prizes of Rs. 1,000/- each are available for school students. <br>
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<b><font size="4">Poster and Cover Letter</font></b>
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Download an electronic copy of the <a href="http://www.cis-india.org:8081/cis/advocacy/floss/software-freedom-day/hiran.jpg" target="_blank">poster</a> and <a href="http://www.cis-india.org:8081/cis/advocacy/floss/software-freedom-day/covering-letter.pdf" target="_blank">covering letter</a> that has been sent to around 350 school and colleges in Bangalore city.
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<b><font size="4">Process of Judging</font></b>
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Volunteers from the Free Software User Group will together constitute a committee that will anonymously and individual score all entries. The score will be consolidated across judges to determine the final winners.
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<b><font size="4">Terms and Conditions</font></b>
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<li value="1" type="1">Copyright: The copyright of the essay will remain with the participant.
</li><li value="2" type="1">License: All submissions will automatically be considered licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License.
</li><li value="3" type="1">The collective decision of the judges will be considered final.
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<b><font size="4">Rules</font></b>
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<li value="1" type="1">Participants must be bona fide students of a school or college in Bangalore.
</li><li value="2" type="1">Word limit for essays is 1200 words.
</li><li value="3" type="1">Essays can be submitted either in English or in Kannada.
</li><li value="4" type="1">Electronic submission should be in an Open Format [ Text - .txt, Rich Text Format .rtf, Open Document Format .odt, Portable Document Format .pdf]
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<b><font size="4"> Thanks</font></b>
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<li value="1" type="1"><a href="http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsug-bangalore/" target="_blank">Free Software Users Grou</a>p - Bangalore for acting as co-organiser for the competition.
</li><li value="2" type="1">Renuka Prasad, Professor, R.V.College of Engineering for the concept, providing leadership and organising the databases of schools and colleges.
</li><li value="3" type="1">Anivar Aravind for providing advise and support.
</li><li value="4" type="1"><a href="http://hiraneffects.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Hiran Venugopalan</a>, Engineering Student, for designing the poster.
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